Lot Essay
"I can't get away from the woman. Wherever I look, I find her"– Willem de Kooning
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Details
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
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signed and dedicated 'to Edwin with love from Bill' (lower right)
graphite and wax crayon on paperboard, double-sided
13 1/8 x 10 in. (33.3 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1950.
Untitled
signed and dedicated 'to Edwin with love from Bill' (lower right)
graphite and wax crayon on paperboard, double-sided
13 1/8 x 10 in. (33.3 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1950.
Provenance
Edwin Denby, New York, gift of the artist
By descent from the above to the present owner
By descent from the above to the present owner
Literature
T. Hess, Willem de Kooning Drawings, Greenwich, 1972, no. 50 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Berlin, Akademie der Kunste, Willem de Kooning: Drawings-Paintings-Sculpture, December 1983-May 1984, p. 48, no. 40 (illustrated).
Newport Harbor Art Museum; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and San Antonio, McNay Art Museum, The Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism, July 1988-April 1989, no. 15 (illustrated).
New York University, Grey Art Gallery, Rudy Burckhardt and Friends: New York Artists of the 1950s and '60s, May-July 2000, p. 11 (illustrated).
Newport Harbor Art Museum; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and San Antonio, McNay Art Museum, The Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism, July 1988-April 1989, no. 15 (illustrated).
New York University, Grey Art Gallery, Rudy Burckhardt and Friends: New York Artists of the 1950s and '60s, May-July 2000, p. 11 (illustrated).
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